Students read closely to analyze the text from Lincoln’s Inaugural Address in an effort to understand what can be learned by studying specific words and phrases. Grade 11: History
Reading is a neuronally and intellectually circuitous act, enriched as much by the unpredictable indirections of a reader’s inferences and thoughts, as by the direct message to the eye from the text. ~ Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid
This overview from the PACER Center walks parents through each step of the special education process, describing what happens from the time a child is referred for evaluation through the development of an individualized education program (IEP).
If parents and teachers understand why some students hate writing , they can targeted solution to address students’ reluctance. Learn some reasons students avoid writing, and how increasing the automaticity of writing skills and underscoring an appreciation for the purpose of writing can help.
We have cultivated resources to develop students’ enjoyment and appreciation of history and civics while also deepening their reading, writing, and thinking skills.
Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation’s history. The book traces the history of African Americans in Tulsa’s Greenwood district and chronicles the devastation that occurred in 1921 when a white mob attacked the Black community. News of what happened was largely suppressed, and no official investigation occurred for seventy-five years. This picture book sensitively introduces young readers to this tragedy and concludes with a call for a better future.
In the throes of teenage rebellion Connor Lassiter seems to have forgotten that his bad behavior could make him an Unwind. So when his parents sign the order to have their troublemaker son unwound, Connor runs away to avoid the fate of having his entire body cut to pieces and redistributed as parts. During his escape, he meets Risa and Lev, also scheduled for unwinding — unless they can survive until their 18th birthdays.
Piri is nine years old at the onset of World War II, and her life becomes a nightmare when the Nazis invade Hungary. Her Jewish family is placed into a ghetto to await the trains that will take them to the concentration camps. Although the Nazis have little to no regard for them as people, Piri’s mother courageously attempts to instill the values of human dignity and respect in her family. This sensitive fictionalized autobiography depicts the value of life in direct contrast to others’ total disregard for humanity. In the end, Piri survives the horrors of Auschwitz.
